(March 8, 2017 at 10:01 am)Nymphadora Wrote: Oh I agree with you, but since Jehanne was on a Catholic bashing spree, I thought it rather fit the question you posed.
I'm not offering any new insights here, but the gist of the story was them being rather poor. Which is totally unrelated to their faith and has everything to do with them needing a wood stove to heat their house and not being able to afford any smoke detectors or other fire precautions.
The whole thing is on the same lines as some moron asking me in a very hot summer with many heat casualties among the elderly, why they hadn't got air conditioning. Uhm, maybe because stuff like that costs money?